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Beginner

Lesson 11

13 min

Can a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin get hacked or shut down?

Although neither Bitcoin itself nor the blockchain have not been hacked since the inception of Bitcoin in 2008, interfaces where cryptocurrencies are handled, like wallets, are still vulnerable to attacks.

How can I keep my cryptocurrencies safe?

Keeping your cryptocurrencies safe is essential for any user of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Interfaces where we store wallets, keys and passwords are the most prone to abuse and theft.

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Lessons on Personal Finance

Personal Finance

Lesson 1

4 min

What is personal finance and why does it matter?

Personal finance involves managing your own money: how much money you earn, what your expenses are, how you spend money, how much you save and where you invest it.

What are assets and liabilities?

Learn how to differentiate between assets and liabilities in personal finance before making your first investment. By budgeting a set amount of your income each month towards investing, you can begin to generate more income and assets.

How can you set up your household budget?

A household budget is basically a list of your income and your expenses and will vary depending on a number of factors.

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Beginner lessons

Beginner

Lesson 1

11 min

The beginnings of money and the importance of trust

People have been exchanging things in barter systems since the dawn of humankind. This gets too complex as soon as more people and goods are involved.

What's the difference between a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and fiat money?

Cryptocurrencies are digital assets that are a medium of exchange between two parties and allow direct transactions between individuals without the intervention of an intermediary.

How does a blockchain work?

A blockchain is a decentralised, tamper-proof database. In a blockchain, transactions are stored in blocks, with each newly generated block referring to the block before it.

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Intermediate lessons

Intermediate

Lesson 1

6 min

The difference between a cryptocurrency broker and an exchange

A cryptocurrency broker acts as an intermediary in the market to facilitate buying and selling of cryptocurrencies for users. A cryptocurrency exchange offers an online platform for buyers and sellers for trading cryptocurrencies with each other based on current market prices.

How to start trading cryptocurrencies

Successful cryptocurrency traders have made cumulative gains over several years marked by perseverance, careful research, unemotional decisions, realistic approaches and invested time and patience.

What are market orders, limit orders, stop limit orders?

Trading is basically the exchange of assets between a buyer and a seller while a trading order is an agreement to exchange an asset like Bitcoin for another asset at a specific price or price range. Trade order types like market orders, limit orders and stop limit orders are among the three most common order types in cryptocurrency trading.

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Expert lessons

Expert

Lesson 1

15 min

The Bitcoin Whitepaper simply explained

The Bitcoin Whitepaper: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System introduced Bitcoin as a digital currency to the world and outlined a trustless peer-to-peer system for electronic transactions.

Pantos and the problem of cross-blockchain token transfers

PANTOS is a multi-stakeholder, open-source research project fostering innovation in the scope of cross-blockchain interoperability to enable use cases such as cross-blockchain arbitrage.

Three future scenarios for cryptocurrencies

Use cases for cryptocurrencies in the long term are set to extend past peer-to-peer payments and could revolutionise the way we use the internet through blockchain projects such as the Brave Browser, IOTA and decentralised finance.

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